"Ah, how ironic, the addictive qualities of Sauronís master weapon led to its own destruction. Which just goes to show, kids - if you want two small and noble souls to succeed on a mission of dire importance... send an evil-minded beggar with them too." - Gandalf's Diaries, final par, by Ufthak.

Here's a fun link from Car Talk, a popular radio show broadcast from National Public Radio here in the US. Yes, Click and Clack - I could see their garage from the windows of my lab when I worked at another company in Cambridge.

There's also variation in the oft-imitated, seldom reproduced (accurately) Boston accent according to neighborhood and class, although less so now than in the past. That is, a Bostonian from Southie would have a different accent than a Boston Brahmin from Back Bay.

My accent remains that of the Midwestern US variety, but when I return to Illinois, I'm told my "r's" are now slightly softened, and I have been know to say "Hahwahya?" instead of "How are you?" so I guess Boston is rubbing off on me.

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...bahwt a soder.

Wouldn't that be "bahwt a tonic?"

A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature. ~~ Henry David Thoreau